What is the time setting of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was set in 1936.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) was set in 1935.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) opens in 1912, then shifts to 1938.
It took about two weeks to make an average “B” movie in the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s-1940s. Or more precisely, between twelve to eighteen days.
Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that inspired Hitch-cock’s The Birds.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
Walt Disney’s animated cartoons first appeared in Kansas City in 1919. Disney started working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, which produced short cartoon commercials to be shown in local theaters. By 1922, Disney had developed his own series of theatrical cartoons, “Laugh-O-Grams,” which were parodies of fairy tales.
In the closing lines of The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Darwell says, “Can’t nobody wipe us out. Can’t nobody lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa. We’re the people.”
Joel McCrea first played Dr. Kildare, in Interns Can’t Take Money (1937).